1919 Home made beverages

Essences and Extracts

mixed in the same proportions as before. Mix the results of three infusions first made, filter and wash the filter paper with the results of the percolation, allowing the filtered percolate to mingle with the filtrate of the mixed infusions. 7. — Vanilla. — Deodorized alcohol, 500 parts; proof spirits, 300 parts; sugar, 100 parts; vanilla, 100 parts. Slit the beans and cut them very fine; then mix them with the sugar, and bruise till moderately fine; add the alcohol and spirits, and macerate for two weeks, occasion- ally shaking; filter. Color with caramel. 8. — a. — Vanillin, 20 parts; absolute alcohol, 600 parts; water, 450 parts. Dissolve the vanillin in the alcohol and add the water. b. — Musk, 1 part; potassium carbonate, 1 part; vanilla beans, 60 parts; boiling water, 240 parts; alcohol, 720 parts. Mix the vanilla, cut fine, the musk and potassium salt, and pour over them the boiling water. Let them stand until quite cold, then add the alcohol and set aside for 14 days. Finally strain, express and filter the percolate. 9. — Vanillin, 45 gr.; coumarin, 3 gr.; alcohol, 3 fl.oz.; glycerine, 2 fl.oz.; simple syrup, 2 fl.oz.; comp. tincture cudbear, 2 fl.dr. ; water enough to make 16 fl.oz. Dissolve the vanillin and coumarin in the alcohol, add the glycerine, syrup and tincture, and lastly enough water to make 16 fl.oz. Wintergreen 1. — Oil of wintergreen, 1 oz.; alcohol, 1 pt.; cudbear or cochineal, 10 gr. 2. — Wintergreen, 2 oz.; sassafras, 2 oz.; sarsaparilla, 4 oz.; burdock root, 4 oz.; dandelion, lj^ oz.; calamus, 4 dr.; dilute alcohol, 1 pt.; water, q. s. Grind all the drugs to a coarse powder and mix. Moisten the drugs with the dilute alcohol and macerate for two days and percolate with the dilute alcohol and water till 32 oz. of product are obtained, then add oil wintergreen, J£ dr.; oil sassafras, % dr., previously dissolved in 2 oz. of alcohol, and then filter. Use 4 oz. of this extract to a gallon of simple syrup and color with caramel to suit. 23